The Briefly for July 2, 2018 – 820 Children Poisoned with Lead, Astoria Subways Closing, High Line Honey Controversy, and More
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The Broadway and 39th Avenue Q/N stations in Astoria are closed for renovations beginning today.
Expect lots of police around the city during the fireworks this Fourth of July. Lots.
Flushing Bay no longer smells like a toilet because 89,000 cubic yards of decaying organic material (that's poop, they're talking about poop) was dredged from the bay as part of a $200 million cleanup project. The wetlands restoration project will be complete by the end of July.
Three Brooklyn beaches were closed for 101 days last summer because there was too much fecal bacteria (poop, again, it's poop). The poop beaches in question are Kiddie, Manhattan, and Kingsborough Community College beaches. Check the city's know before you go program to see if your beach is to poopy. 27 billion gallons of raw sewage are dumped into the New York Harbor every year.
The quaintest dead end streets of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, from Untapped Cities.
WNYC and Gothamist's coverage and investigation into Gramercy Park has reached the mayor, who said the city should reassess the private park's tax-free status.
Start talking to your neighbors and stop calling 311, especially in gentrifying neighborhoods. BuzzFeed dove into 311 complains to discover the friction between new residents and the neighborhood.
Two days after NYC Parks Commissioner declared Central Park "will be entirely and permanently car-free," a cyclist collided with a garbage truck. Turns out "car-free" doesn't apply to city vehicles.
Filming Around Town: Tell Me A Story, starring Kim Cattrall, is at Remsen and Clinton in Brooklyn, The Deuce, starring James Franco, is at 7th and 2nd, and Aviva is at 72nd and 5th.
City councilperson Brad Lander was one of the people arrested protesting outside of State Senator Marty Golden's office.
The John J. Harvey for a World War I era makeover from artist Tauba Auerbach and is a sight to behold.
A look inside Overthrow Boxing, part boxing gym and part throwback to the Bleecker Street of old.
State Supreme Court Justice ShawnDya Simpson appears to to be living in New Jersey and stretching the definition of what it means to "reside in New York" to keep her job on the court.
820 kids in NYCHA apartments have been poisoned by lead paint. The NYCHA has been avoiding lead-paint regulations for years and the cost of avoiding those regulation is poisoning children.
TD Bank created High Line Honey to show how important bees are to a sustainable food supply, but their choice of Andrew Cotes as beekeeper is proving to be controversial.
On the same block where two children were killed in a car accident in Park Slope is the Van Brunt Post Office, notable for the volume of double parking that regularly occurs. Employees of the post office have been caught abusing parking placards by the Brooklyn Paper. Their placards are being revoked and postal placards will no longer be issued.